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 Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse. Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge

Contents

• • Preliminary material (i-xx)   (122K)
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    • Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • List Of Illustrations And Tables
    • Notes On Contributors
    • Introduction By Daria Berg
  • Liaozhai Zhiyi and chinese vernacular fiction (1-36) by Allan H. Barr   (175K)
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    • Colloquial Language In Liaozhai Zhiyi
    • Narrative Technique
    • Symmetry And Intricacy
    • Thematic Concerns
    • Narrative Mode
    • Pu Songling And LI Yu
    • Liaozhai Zhiyi And Jingu Qiguan
    • Conclusion
  • The allusive mode of production: Text, commentary, and illustration in the Tianzhang Ge edition of Xixiang Ji (The story of the western wing) (37-73) by LI-Ling Hsiao   (1M)
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    • The Implicit Ideology Of The Text
    • The Implicit Ideology Of The Publisher
    • The Implicit Ideology Of The Illustrator
  • Narrating the passage of text: Reading multiple editions of the nineteenth-century novel Huayue Hen (traces of flowers and the moon) (74-110) by Chloë Starr   (512K)
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    • Textuality And Red-Light Fiction
    • Textual Descent
    • Reading The Changes
    • Reading The Modern Novel: Authors And Editors
    • Emending The Text
    • Conclusions
  • Conflicting discourse and the discourse of conflict: Eremitism and the pastoral in the poetry of Ruan Dacheng (C.1587-1646) (111-146) by Alison Hardie   (171K)
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    • Introduction
    • Ruan’S Life And Reputation
    • The Garden Poems
    • Themes Of Ruan Dacheng’S Poetry
    • Conclusion
  • ‘Life’ as they knew it: Du Zhongyuan’s editorial strategies for the Xinsheng (new life) weekly, 1934-35 (147-169) by Rana Mitter   (118K)
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    • The Rise Of The Periodical Press In Early Twentieth-Century China
    • Continuity, Change, And Content
    • Confucian Values And The Subjective Self
    • Unemployment, Emotion, And Gender
    • Conclusion
  • The afterlife of a lost book—Du Ji (the record of jealous women) fifth century (170-199) by Carolyn Ford   (338K)
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    • The Composition Of The Original Record
    • Reading The Tale Of Huan Wen, Miss LI And The Princess
    • Rewriting The Tale In Tang And Song Poetry
    • Late Imperial Readings Of The Tale
    • The Amended Record
    • The Loss Of The Last Known Amended Record
    • Conclusion
  • A reading of Hou Jing’s rebellion in Zizhi Tongjian (comprehensive mirror to aid government): The construction of Sima Guang’s imperial vision (200-237) by Mark Strange   (191K)
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    • Reading Zizhi Tongjian
    • Hou Jing’S Imperial Challenge
    • Political Disorder
    • Domestic Disorder
    • Liang Imperial Rule
    • Territorial Ambitions
    • Employment Of Ministers
    • Liang Religious Policy
    • Shifting Political Dynamics
    • Conclusion
  • Female self-fashioning in late imperial China: How the gentlewoman and the courtesan edited her story and rewrote hi/story (238-290) by Daria Berg   (377K)
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    • The Concept Of Self-Fashioning
    • The Gentlewoman Editor
    • The Courtesan Ghost-Editor
    • Concluding Remarks: Editorial Negotiations
  • Glossary (291-298)   (407K)
  • List of works cited (299-314)   (105K)
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    • Sources Cited By Abbreviation
    • Other Sources
  • Index (315-323)   (67K)